Find Medai Info -- Need Help   

I need to know more about how and where Windows Media Player library find 
album info stores information about songs.  I half a half-dozen different 
songssongs by different artists from different albums in my library that 
find album info thinks are the same.  No matter what I do to make sure the 
Windows file summary data, the additional Media Player library fields and 
the desktop.ini files are correct, running find album info on any one of 
those songs will change all the others to match the album being updated. 
Obviously, I'm overlooking the source of mistaken information that is 
causing Windows Media Player to corrupt the library information on these 
files.  Can anyone tell me where I find the corrupt information and how to 
correct it?

date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:39:26 -0400   author:   Jay Gourley

Re: Find Medai Info -- Need Help   

They were ripped from the same physical CD, right?  If you don't check the 
"These are from a custom CD" checkbox, the player assumes they're from some 
compilation album and links them.

As such you can not use Find "Album" Info for those tracks.  Edit them by 
hand for now.

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"Jay Gourley"  wrote in message 
news:eegwiQD0IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I need to know more about how and where Windows Media Player library find 
>album info stores information about songs.  I half a half-dozen different 
>songssongs by different artists from different albums in my library that 
>find album info thinks are the same.  No matter what I do to make sure the 
>Windows file summary data, the additional Media Player library fields and 
>the desktop.ini files are correct, running find album info on any one of 
>those songs will change all the others to match the album being updated. 
>Obviously, I'm overlooking the source of mistaken information that is 
>causing Windows Media Player to corrupt the library information on these 
>files.  Can anyone tell me where I find the corrupt information and how to 
>correct it?
>

date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:43:36 -0700   author:   zachd [MSFT]

Re: Find Medai Info -- Need Help   

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:39:26 -0400, "Jay Gourley" 
wrote:

>I need to know more about how and where Windows Media Player library find 
>album info stores information about songs.  I half a half-dozen different 
>songssongs by different artists from different albums in my library that 
>find album info thinks are the same.  No matter what I do to make sure the 
>Windows file summary data, the additional Media Player library fields and 
>the desktop.ini files are correct, running find album info on any one of 
>those songs will change all the others to match the album being updated. 
>Obviously, I'm overlooking the source of mistaken information that is 
>causing Windows Media Player to corrupt the library information on these 
>files.  Can anyone tell me where I find the corrupt information and how to 
>correct it? 


Replied in the other newsgroup (though I'm not entirely certain the
reply will be a great help !)

Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:13:47 GMT   author:   Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

Re: Find Medai Info -- Need Help   

Hi Neil-- Thanks for the help.  Before you posted, I found a shareware 
program called "Tag&Rename" (tagrename.exe).  It edits all versions of id3 
tags.  Unlike Windows Explorer, every ID3 field is available for editing in 
Tag&Rename.  And unlike Windows Media Player, editing the ID3 tag on a music 
file affects only that file.  I'll probably never know why Windows Media 
Player's "Find Album Info" changes ID3 tags on files other than the one the 
user specifies.  There may be a good reason for it, but not knowing the 
reason, I assume it's a bug in Windows Media Player. --Jay

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]"  wrote in message 
news:l8ag54duu26nngv0s81mbukp51a6veplv8@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:39:26 -0400, "Jay Gourley" 
> wrote:
>
>>I need to know more about how and where Windows Media Player library find
>>album info stores information about songs.  I half a half-dozen different
>>songssongs by different artists from different albums in my library that
>>find album info thinks are the same.  No matter what I do to make sure the
>>Windows file summary data, the additional Media Player library fields and
>>the desktop.ini files are correct, running find album info on any one of
>>those songs will change all the others to match the album being updated.
>>Obviously, I'm overlooking the source of mistaken information that is
>>causing Windows Media Player to corrupt the library information on these
>>files.  Can anyone tell me where I find the corrupt information and how to
>>correct it?
>
>
> Replied in the other newsgroup (though I'm not entirely certain the
> reply will be a great help !)
>
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:52:25 -0400   author:   Jay Gourley